Floppertje said:
indoctrinate with what message, exactly?
one of the problems here is that sexuality is kinda hard to pin down. I mean, if someone has a crush on someone else, isn't that a part of sexuality? Brock is gushing over a girl in pretty much every episode of pokemon that he's in. of course it's probably a bad idea to fill a kids show with boobs, but to deny that the whole sexuality thing exists...
What age group are we talking about, exactly? I took it to mean something along the lines of pre-pubescent and I've never really seen pokemon as being that age level. Perhaps I'm wrong, though, I don't have a working knowledge of most things aimed at teen and under.
You don't deny sexuality exists by not acknowledging it. I don't believe it should be acknowledged by children's TV. It's a concept that is, by your own statement, complex. Should we be trying to boil down a complex issue to children? Why would they need that?
To what end would you add someones sexuality? In adult stories(demographically speaking, I mean), such things are added to give a character depth and realism. It's to add a certain bond or give a deeper understanding of their desires. What possible reason could you have for giving a character in a children's show sexuality? Even the parents in most kids shows I've seen have been largely asexual, the only proof of their having had sex being that they have kids. But kids don't think like that. They don't understand or know the intricacies of human reproduction, so it's lost on them. They only know that they have parents, not that the parents had sex. The sex may as well have not happened.
It adds nothing but a complex concept into a place where it's not needed. I don't have kids(knock on wood), but I do have nieces and nephews. I don't want to have to try to boil down human sexuality to them during a time in their life when they don't know anything about sex and wont for many more years to come. It's unnecessary and foolish.
